The Chase Annie Dillard Annie Dillard is best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. In this chapter from her autobiography‚ An American Childhood‚ Dillard leads us running desperately through snow-filled backyards. Like all of Dillard’s writing‚ this romp shows an unparalleled enthusiasm for life and skill at expressing it. 1Some boys taught me to play football. This was fine sport. You thought up a new strategy for every play and whispered it to the others
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On November 11‚ 1620 the pilgrims‚ aboard the Mayflower ship‚ dropped anchor at Cape Cod. They wanted to explore the new land with a shallop they brought with them from England‚ but it suffered damages during the voyage and needed mending. In this situation‚ while the shallop was being repaired‚ 16 well armed men‚ leaded by Captain Standish‚ were allowed to seek what seemed to be a nearby river. This was unknown land‚ so they took every precaution available to them. On the 15th of November they
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The Trail of Tears: Before and After In the early 1830’s‚ the Native Americans’ consisted of about 125‚000 people living in Georgia‚ Tennessee‚ Alabama‚ North Carolina and Florida. America‚ their homeland had been invaded by white settlers. Unfortunately the settlers’ greed won the moral battle. The federal government made the executive decision to introduce the “Indian Removal Bill”‚ which led to the extrication of the Native Americans by a long forced journey-by-foot known as the trail of tears
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Ever since the dawn of Judaism and the rise of Christianity and Islam‚ pilgrimage has been a deeply rooted tradition for groups of people from every monotheistic religion for thousands of years. Every year you can see many pilgrims at several places around the world‚ and it is amazing how that huge amount of people can gather unanimously at a place sharing only their common beliefs. Pilgrimage is a sacred journey conducted by people of a faith to a religious site‚ it’s often believed that the followers
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are antiwar novels. In Slaughterhouse 5‚ Vonnegut is trying to express his point of view‚ or sway the readers to understand the negative properties of war since the firebombing of the German town Dresden during World War II. The protagonist Billy Pilgrim is the antiwar hero because he does not fit the description of the usual war hero. "He didn ’t look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo" (Vonnegut‚ 33) Billy ’s character is a customary figure of fun in the American Army. Billy
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In May 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act‚ this approved that the President Andrew Jackson could remove all Native Americans from their land and to arrange settlements of evacuation with every single Indian tribe living east of the Mississippi. After the Indian Removal act was established Georgia‚ surveyors and squatter entered Cherokee lands‚ instantly focusing on the Cherokee tribe‚ they chose to battle back in government court. The Cherokee country brought a suit against the condition
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By the closing year of the 1600s‚ life in the German Rheinpfalz region of Europe was still in turmoil. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) had left the population reduced to such an extent it would not return to pre-war levels for nearly a century. The Nine Years War (1688-1697) left Heidelberg‚ the region’s capital‚ devastated as foreign armies marched across the territory leaving shortages of food and shelter. The government-controlled churches torn between the major faiths‚ Roman Catholic‚ Lutheran
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and is going to take her out to dinner and a movie. After that‚ a traveling tinker stops by her house and offers to fix any pots or sharpen any knives. After a conversation with the tinker‚ Elisa figures out for herself that she doesn’t get to express herself very much. Elisa eventually finds something for the tinker to fix and even gives him a chrysanthemum plant for one of his other customers. She later sees that the tinker threw the plant out and that she is unsatisfied with her marriage. “The Chrysanthemums”
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Indians greeted the Mayflower; a ship with pilgrims looking for a new beginning and introduced them to new foods and farming techniques were to assist in their survival. Although not intentional in many ways the pilgrims did undue harm these unsuspecting Native Americans by bring disease‚ foreign plants‚ animals‚ insects‚ bacteria‚ sea life‚ grains and religious views which would forever change the Indians way of life‚ ancestry‚ food sources and education. Pilgrims saw the Indians as a savage people who
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Living the life as a farmer’s wife‚ in a secluded little country town can be lonely. In the early 1900’s‚ farm families do not go into town every day. Therefore‚ they do not have much interaction with the public. Hence‚ Henry and Elisa Allen spend the majority of their time tending to the farm. In the John Steinbeck story‚ The Chrysanthemums‚ he tells of a lonely‚ hardworking farm wife‚ who is seeking attention‚ and wonders what life could be like outside of the valley‚ but decides to settle for
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